Week Three - January 27

Sinan Pasha Mosque - Damascus
 

Mosque of Sinan Pasha, Damascus, 16th century [Ottoman]

Class Presentation:  The Ottoman Legacies in the Middle East [visitor: Professor L. Carl Brown, Princeton University].

Reading Assignments:  L. Carl Brown. Imperial Legacy.  pp. 1-38, 100-114, 133-157.

Professor Brown will be delivering a public lecture on January 28, "The West and the Middle East: What did go Wrong?" in Wonders Kiva at 7:30 p.m.

In addition to the book we are using in this class, Professor Brown has written:
    (ed) Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International Relatoins of Regional and Outside Powers (2001).
    Religion and State: the Muslim Approach to Politics (2000).
    (ed, with Matthew S. Gordon) Franco-Arab Encounters: Studies in Memory of David C. Gordon (1996).
    International Politics and the Middle East: Old Rules, Dangerous Game (1984).
    (ed, with Norman Itzkowitz) Psychological Dimensions of Near Eastern Studies (1977).
    The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-1855 (1974).
    The Surest Path: The Political Treatise of a Nineteenth-Century Muslim Statesman (1967).
    State and Society in Independent North Africa (1966).